Improved algorithms for feedback vertex set problems

AbstractWe present improved parameterized algorithms for the feedback vertex set problem on both unweighted and weighted graphs. Both algorithms run in time O(5kkn2). The algorithms construct a feedback vertex set of size at most k (in the weighted case this set is of minimum weight among the feedback vertex sets of size at most k) in a given graph G of n vertices, or report that no such feedback vertex set exists in G